Rip, Rig & Panic
by The Roland Kirk Quartet Featuring Elvin Jones
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The Roland Kirk Quartet Featuring Elvin Jones bestography
Rip, Rig & Panic is ranked 2nd best out of 26 albums by Rahsaan Roland Kirk on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Rahsaan Roland Kirk is I Talk With The Spirits which is ranked number 5313 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 261.
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Rip, Rig & Panic track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Rip, Rig & Panic rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Rahsaan Roland Kirk: So Far.. | 11/20 | - |
| 2026 | PurpleHazel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 44/100 | 11 |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1965 | 47/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | PurpleHazel | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 77/100 | 23 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 79 Music Albums of 1965 | 35/79 | 3 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 40 Music Albums of 1965 | 18/40 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 99 Music Albums of 1965 | 40/99 | 3 |
| 2026 | AAL2014 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1965 | 20/50 | 3 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 31 Music Albums of 1965 | 23/31 | 1 |
| 2025 |  sssvnnn | Top 30 Music Albums of 1965 | 8/30 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 44 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 169 | |||
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Rip, Rig & Panic ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/14/2026 03:30 | AAL2014 | 4,292 | 75/100 |
| ! | 06/06/2026 17:35 |  sageamagoo | 1,461 | 80/100 |
| ! | 12/19/2025 21:54 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,670 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 06/30/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5359): By PurpleHazel baystateoftheart 02/16/2020 00:43 in Black History Month Listening Project (Third Annual)Rip, Rig & Panic comments
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ffudnebbuh 04/16/2011 16:08 | #20416 | TOP COMMENT
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I just heard the most interesting track from the best of RR kirk titled " Variations on a theme from Hindemith"..really liked it, but the album is not on this website yet, so this was the only place that I could comment. Reminded me a little of "Blues on Bach" by the Modern Jazz Quartet, but of course totally different jazz palate. By the way, "Blues on Bach" was a relatively consistent seller for Atlantic right up until 1994 when I left record retail.
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